

This directory contains the raw data and codebooks (except we have redacted all names and phone numbers of
the participants).

The OBOEprojectCOMPLETE.dta file contains the data from all data sources for the project: the OBOE participant 
pre-post survey, two waves of the ISA telephone survey of the general population and also OBOE participants who 
registered but did not attend, and the two waves YouGov/Polimetrix (PMX) online survey.  The first wave for ISA and 
PMX surveys coincided with the OBOE event, and the second wave was fielded just after the November 2010 election.  
This is a rectangular dataset in block form, where the first block are the OBOE participants, the second block are the 
ISA respondents (OBOE nonparticipants and genpop), the third block are the PMX respondents, and each block is indicated 
by a corresponding variable prefix.  Finally, we create a set of variables combining all wave 1 responses across 
the three datasources with variables prefixed with all_, and all wave 2 responses with variables prefixed with 
nov_.  These latter two sets enable comparisons across the different datasets.

The OBOEprojectCOMPLETEcodebook.pdf file compiles the codebooks from the different data sources and these are 
described in the document.  This document also contains a table showing the correspondence in variable names 
across the different data sets, as well as the code used to create and recode variables used in the analysis.  
For convenience we also include Stata .do files with the recodes that are described in the codebook -- you do not 
need to run the .do files since these newly constructed variables are already in the datafiles.

The "OBOE Overview 031310.doc" file contains some qualitative description of the event provided by the organizer 
(AmericaSpeaks).
